Flash UFO Sightings
2,383 Flash-shaped UFO sightings recorded worldwide since 1946, peaking in 2015 (151 reports); most commonly reported in United States.
- Total sightings
- 2,383
- Span
- 1946–2021
- Peak year
- 2015 (151 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Flash
1946–2021 · peak 2015 (151 reports)
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Wheatfield · IN, USA
Gradual bright white light at night illuminating the eastern sky and ground. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))
Bridgeport · OH, USA
Unknown flash of light.Lit up the sky like a fire works display in the distance. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))
Holland · MI, USA
Bright white flash and strange whirring sound on clear night.
Pomeroy · OH, USA
Flash in the sky ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))
Brewster · WA, USA
Very Large Red Flash Object lasting 2 seconds
Keene · NH, USA
Looked like plane or scud missle shot down.
Krakow (Poland) · Poland
A bright round thing in the air not moving at all ((NUFORC Note: Possibly Venus?? PD))
London (Canada) · ON, Canada
bright light hovering above trees, moving in short jerky movements, with a strange high pitched sound.
Ewing · NJ, USA
Stationary light flashing white, red, blue, west of Ewing NJ. ((NUFORC Note: Possible twinkling star? PD))
Findlay · OH, USA
strob light in sky moved left to right up and down fast movements
Lead · SD, USA
light in the sky flashed once approx. every 2 minutes but never moved. Stayed in one location and flashed once every 2 minutes!
UK/England · United Kingdom
sharp sparadic white flashes, which had no sound.
Manchester · NH, USA
At approximately 20:35hrs greater than what conventional aircraft (40+ thousand feet) a brightness of two very strong white lights appe
Southern Pines · NC, USA
Blue star burst that lasted about 2 seconds with a sonic boom, no smoke trail .Very clean light .
Raleigh · NC, USA
A white line of light flashed across a portion of the sky and disappeared.
Indianapolis · IN, USA
I saw two yellow/pink flashes of light just left of the moon approx. 5 mins apart, not weather related.
Tyro · NC, USA
bright white object seen above trees
West Sacramento · CA, USA
It left skid marks in the sky with a trail of smoke. It was a blue light of a flash which I thought were fireworks that never popped. T
Johnson City · TN, USA
Shooting Star in TN?
Loveland · CO, USA
Bright flash of light for a few seconds in Loveland, CO.
Antioch · CA, USA
blue flashing light with undulating whisp traling seen south west of downtown antioch from 10:30-11:30 pm on 08/08/2004
Blind Bay (Canada) · BC, Canada
A stationary object in the northern sky over Shuswap Lake, flashing colours of red, blue & white. I first noticed the object at 10:00
Lake Zurich (sub of Chicago) · IL, USA
A sudden extraordinary occurance in the sky...seeing at near range a ufo...traveling fast, low, horizontal as a ball and streak.
Sacramento · CA, USA
Blinking star.
Plainfield · IL, USA
Flash in the sky in Plainfield, IL